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...Alarm bells Authorities had another warning in 1999, when MSS' licence was suspended after one of its staff was arrested for handling four babies stolen from a hospital. He passed the children to another adoption agency, Madras Social Service Guild, known as MASOS, which has also sent children to Australia. Charges against the agencies were dropped, since it could not be proved they knew the children were stolen; both had their licenses restored...
Over the past two or three decades, scientists have noticed with growing alarm that vast stretches of coastal waters are turning into dead zones - patches of seabed so depleted of oxygen that few creatures, if any, can survive there. In 2004, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) took stock of the phenomenon - which is caused in large part by agricultural runoff - and pronounced it one of the biggest environmental problems of the 21st century. Two years later it noted that the number of identified dead zones, some of which cover thousands of square miles, had climbed from...
...just the aluminum that has caused alarm. Concerns about the potential link between antiperspirants and breast cancer bubbled up several years ago, buoyed by a study showing that breast-tumor cells taken from biopsies in women contained parabens, commonly used preservatives that can mimic the hormone estrogen. Another study found that among women with breast cancer, those who shaved their underarms frequently, then applied antiperspirant or deodorant, tended to develop the cancer at an earlier age. But, says Dr. Therese Bevers of Houston's MD Anderson Cancer Center, "all these studies are fraught with biases, so you have to interpret...
...efficiency and implanting carbon capture and storage for existing fossil fuel plants, plus a shift to electric cars. But Gore's message was subtly different this time. The man who has in the past called climate change a "moral and spiritual challenge" sounded more pragmatic notes. While sounding the alarm on melting Arctic ice and strange weather, Gore also emphasized the financial toll that high gasoline prices were taking on average Americans, and the security threat posed by our increased dependence on foreign...
...about young Britons are far from unfounded. Simply venture into London's West End late on a Saturday night to witness the national pastime of binge-drinking with its attendant brawls and mishaps. Young British men fighting on the streets is hardly news, but the development that has raised alarm bells is the widespread carrying of weapons. Teachers report increases in the number of pupils bringing knives to school; students in turn claim to carry them for protection against their peers - the same reason they cite for joining the gangs that are proliferating in British cities. Children here are fearful...